Lord Denning said: ‘An Enforcement notice is not to be regarded with the strict eye of a conveyancer. An inaccuracy or mis-description does not make it a nullity . . so long as an Enforcement notice tells a man fairly what he has done wrong and what he is required to do to put it right, then the notice is good.’
Judges:
Lord Denning
Citations:
1966 LGR 452
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – BT Fleet Ltd v McKenna Admn 17-Mar-2005
The company appealed a notice requiring them to avoid th eneed for its employees to carry out manual handling operations.
Held: The notice was inadequate, and the magistrates had been wrong to try to improve it by adding to it. The inspector . .
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Local Government, Planning
Updated: 09 May 2022; Ref: scu.224055